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New Agreement will Train CWU Leaders of Tomorrow in Northern Ireland
29th January 2010
The CWU has signed a new ground breaking agreement with the North West Regional College in Northern Ireland to provide for all our activist training requirements in the Region. The agreement, which is modelled on our extremely successful agreement with Solihull College in England, will provide a wide range of courses for our activists across the Region which will be delivered by our own CWU tutors.
Signing the Agreement for the CWU at the union's Education Centre at Alvescot Lodge, Trish Lavelle head of education and training was enthusiastic about this new partnership. " At a time when supporting reps and growing our union at grassroots level is the main priority this will provide our activists in Northern Ireland with access to a high standard of learning to support and sustain them in their role," she said.
"Our local reps of today are the leaders of tomorrow and we have a responsibility to ensure they get training of the highest quality. I would like to place on record my appreciation of the work done by Lawrence Huston, our Regional Secretary in Northern Ireland who has put an enormous amount of work into getting this agreement in place"
Representing the North West Regional College John Hueston welcomed this new initiative. "We are delighted to be working with the CWU, who share our vision in terms of progressive high quality learning for trade unionists. The combination of our state of the art training facilities and the CWU's track record on learning this is a relationship which we expect to be successful for all parties."
Lawrence Huston Northern Ireland Regional Secretary added, "This innovative agreement gets vital training out to all our activists across the Region but it also helps us develop our own pool of CWU tutors. We look forward to seeing this partnership grow and develop over the next 12 months."
The CWU Education and Training Department are now finalising a Spring/Summer programme for activists in Northern Ireland, which will be advertised soon. For more information contact tlavelle@cwu.org or keep up to date with Regional courses on the web at www.cwueducation.org
